Vidar Exploiting Social Media Platform (Mastodon) Posted By jcleebobgatenet , January 26, 2022 The ASEC analysis team has recently discovered that Vidar is exploiting a social media platform named Mastodon to create C&C server addresses. Vidar is an info-stealer malware installed through spam emails and PUP, sometimes being disguised as a KMSAuto authenticator tool. It has been consistently distributed since the past, and there was a recent case of it being installed through other types of malware such as Stop ransomware. When Vidar is run, it first accesses the C&C server to receive…
